Performing Network Diagnostics: Network Utility
Unix-based operating systems are inherently networked operating systems from the original design, so they have a rather complete suite of network diagnostic software that comes with the basic operating system by default. We cover interaction with the command-line versions of these tools in several chapters to come. Apple has also provided a convenient GUI tool that functions as a front end to many of the diagnostics that the command-line tools can perform. Although it doesn't provide access to the complete range of options for each of the commands, the Network Utility application (path: /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility) is convenient for those who don't care to remember the syntax of command-line ...
Get Mac OS® X Tiger™ Unleashed now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
